Saturday, January 4, 2025

Nature Tour Around Sorong City and Raja Ampat

Sorong city is the main entrance gate for visitors who want to enjoy their vacation in Raja Ampat. Every day airplanes land at Domine Eduard Osok (DEO) Airport of Sorong city. They bring hundreds of visitors. Most of them want to enjoy swimming, snorkeling and scuba diving in Waigeo, Gam, Kri, Mansuar, Arborek, Piaynemo, Wayag and Misool islands. 

nature tour in sorong city
Nature tour in Sorong city

Visitors who have just landed in Sorong city are often too tired to start their trip in Raja Ampat. They may want to take a rest in the hotels in Sorong city after their long flights from home. There are also visitors who have just returned from Raja Ampat after their snorkeling and diving tours. Most of them want to take a rest for 1 day or 2 days in Sorong. Some of them are interested in taking easy to do nature tour around Sorong city

Willie Wagtail

Birding in Sorong and Raja Ampat
Helmeted Friarbird

As a tourist guide, I often organize easy nature tour around Sorong city. The duration of the tours can be as short as morning or afternoon trip, 1 full day nature tour, or 2 full day nature tours around Sorong city.

Swamp Tiger Butterfly (Danaus affinis)
Swamp Tiger Butterfly

During the tours, participants will be brought to places in the hills that have rainforest to see the scenery, enjoy watching birds and butterflies. Tours to mangrove forest can also be organized for visitors who are interested in seeing mangrove trees with birds, butterflies, dragon flies, and other insects,  mudskipper, fish, and crab that form the ecosystem mangrove. 

White-bellied Cuckooshrike also called Zorro bird
White-bellied Cuckooshrike

Participants can bring their own binoculars and cameras during the tours. To enhance the nature tour experience of the participants, I, as a tour guide, usually bring spotting scope that will enable participants to watch distant birds, or epiphytes in trees. 

traveling to raja ampat
Sorong city's nature tour

This nature tour around Sorong city can be taken by solo traveling visitor, a couple or a group of tourists who are interested in exploring natural places at the outskirts of Sorong city. 

Orchid flower
Terrestrial Orchid at the outskirts of Sorong city

Nature Tour in Raja Ampat

For tour participants who want to take nature tour in Raja Ampat, it can be combined with this Sorong tour. The main destination is Waigeo. Birds that can be watched include coastal and sea birds such as Pacific Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Beach Thick Knee, Wandering Whistling Duck, Radjah Shelduck, Black-naped Tern and a lot more. For Rainforest Birds, the main target will be the Wilson's Bird of Paradise and Red Bird of Paradise. There are a lot of other species too such as the Papuan Eclectus, Coconut Lorikeet, Great-billed Parrot, Rufous-bellied Kookaburra, Yellow-billed Kingfisher, and a lot more. Birdwatching or butterfly watching could be conducted between 06:00 to 09:00 and 15:00 to 18:00. Between these times, participants could enjoy snorkeling or sightseeing to a number of islands around Waigeo.

paradise bird, butterfly, piaynemo
Nature Tour in Raja Ampat

Red Bird of Paradise
Red Bird of Paradise

If you are interested in taking this Sorong nature tour and want me to organize your trip and guide you, please, contact me (Charles Roring) by email to: peace4wp@gmail.com or by whatsapp to: +6281332245180. 

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